CeramicSpeed wants you to invest in their wild Driven drivetrain concept

Sell it to Specialized it will be on every bike they sell by next Tuesday and we will be told you see god when you ride it.
Otherwise now my lawn this summer and I’ll pay you $1000

I will not be investing in that. Thank you

As this is a promotional video for investment purposes, it should have shown close-ups of this mechanism in use, while someone is actually riding a bike with it. Unless pros are using it on grand tours, these wont take over that demographic. Serious commuters may like it as much as they like belt driven bicycles.

I am not a mechanical engineer but I’m guessing if you take the power/torque axis and turn it sideways as this does, the rear stay needs to withstand a shit-ton of torque..I dunno.. those tiny little teeth??..prolly work well on a track bike…but grinding on a 12% grade? it does however look pretty sweet.

No thanks, go away CeramicSpeed and Driven. We don’t need this junk. The efficiency of bikes is well above other vehicles, we don’t need to throw away what we have in pursuit of faster wear rates and a terrible concept. There’s limited proof that it even works, let alone has any meaningful durability. Sure, the parts move when you turn the cranks, but that’s only enough for a wall hanger.

Why don’t they sell a limited quantity to get them in real hands and see how it fares outside of controlled conditions? That’s what everyone else has to do. Why should CeramicSpeed market a drivetrain when their primary experience is in lubrication testing and design(trial and error)? I’m not seeing how this fits together without a lot of growing pains and revisions soon after it’s released.

They’re reaching out for investors because no bike company wants to touch this. If there’s any merit to it you’d see adoption, even by an obscure brand, so something isn’t adding up.

I’m getting flashbacks to those Ciamillo cranks that turned into a fiasco. Happy to see those are gone.

These comments crack me up. Likely the same people that think ebikes are a fad.

Id pay good money to have to privilage of watching someone riding through tall grass with that!

BTW, what ever happened to taking the risk if you think it is a good product? These days it seems companies want to flip the table and have consumers take all of the risk!

For those who don’t understand convertible note round valuation caps, they restrict the dilution effect, not the other way around. This isn’t necessarily priced right but the cap protects against a massive valuation in the actual conversation equity round.

Will I invest? No. Because the discount normally provided to convertible note holders is not a standard and customary for these.

Do I like the tech? It’s interesting although think the torque and need for a telescoping extension prevent this from being used on MTB, therefore the market is reduced to high-end road machines, ergo rich white guys…again.

This is such a joke. They don’t believe in their own product, so they create a spin-off company and try to crowd-fund it?
Anyone with any scrap of mechanical aptitude would realize how flawed this design is.
I have actually lost all respect for CeramicSpeed or anyone who works for them as a result of this decision. (Not that I had much respect for them to start).